mactuna and spanners

[rosco1974]

had a late start this morning as i had to pick my youngfella up at caboolture so decided to tow the boat to maloolaba for a spanner crab trip..had the boat in the water around 9 and headed out to a mark for spanners the leathal098 give me a few months ago to try...cheers for the spot mate as they are on up there..on the way we spotted some bird activity so had a look..i threw a small chrome slug and was on straight away..i boated a nice little mactuna had another few casts for another 2 macs...got to the spanner mark and droped 8 spanner dillies in..by the time we droped the last dillie the 1st 1 had been in for around 30minutes ...we went straight back to 1st dillie and pulled it we got 6 keeper spanners and a few throw backs..i had a feeling we would get enough for a feed so we didn't drop it back..we did the rest of the dillies for a total of 40 spanners out baglimit...8 dillies 40 keepers not bad considering 2 dillies had no crabs just legs caught in the net...guess the turtles had a good feed...was a great day out.on the way home i had another few casts a few schools of fish bustin up got another mactuna..kept all the mactuna for bait
once again thanks lee for the starting marks for where to crab and like i said they are on up there..used half a mullet for bait in each dillie..

oh and the dillies i used where not witches hat dillies they where propper spanner crab dillies

cheers rosco

[vertico]

nice work mate and cobes like eating spanner crabs

[byron_moses]

nice one rosco well done mate

[Scalem]

Rosco you're a machine! Well done on the spanners mate!

Scalem

[rosco1974]

tell ya what the arms are feeling it today..hard work pulling a dillie up 35mtrs full of crabs..might of been cobia pinchin the crabs as well then
cheers rosco

[Timfishin4fun]

Top work Rosco.

Tim

[popgun19]

Nice one Rosco, what a great feed !

Spanner crabs are one of my favourite eating crustaceans and I look for to catching a few one day soon.

Cheers,
Brian

[lethal098]

Top stuff Rosco, Its certainly hard work pulling them up from that depth, Glad you finally got up there and got a few.

Cheers Lee

[rosco1974]

thanks for all your help lethal i owe u a beer mate

[lethal098]

No Probs Rosco, anytime.

Cheers Lee

[littlemac]

well done rosco thats a great feed.

well done

cheers

brett

[bribiegreen]

hello Rosco,, any hints on where to get some, often thought about trying for some.. Cheers

[tropicrows]

Hi Rosco, what do spanner crabs taste like (don't say like chicken), anything like a sand/blue swimmer crab

[rosco1974]

i think they are a similar to a sandie but maybe a little sweeter..they still go down well with a beer.lol

[bondy99]

As Roscoe1974 says, they are sweeter than blueswimmer but have lots of shell cavaties in the body. I caught a few in the past , in our catch there were a few sea turtles that like these also.

After a 6 hour soak for us.

Will be going again since the closure is open again.

Cheers, bondy99